blissful - Story 15319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He woke with a lightness in his heart, a feeling of quiet happiness that settled over him like a warm blanket. Everything felt right, peaceful, and good. He had been feeling this way for hours.

As he walked into the living room, he was met with the melodic sounds of Farsi. He paused. He then saw her, on the phone, animated and laughing. He felt warmth blossom in his chest.

He simply leaned against the doorframe, watching her. Then she saw him, and beckoned him over. He felt an overflow of happiness.

He walked over and she said “Salam, azizam.” She had been speaking to his parents. He hugged her, a feeling of pure delight surging through him.

Emotion: blissful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.20 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.79

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion blissful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 blissful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the blissful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the blissful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`joyful`	0.417
`affectionately`	0.400
`😍`	0.397
`🥰`	0.392
`overjoyed`	0.384

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.724
`L`	-0.398
`P`	-0.394
`😞`	-0.385
`😣`	-0.360